The International Committee of the Fourth International calls for a global campaign to demand the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk from prison. The 25-year-old leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists (the YGBL) was arrested by the state security .
The fraudulent charge of treason brought against Syrotiuk is aimed at intimidating and suppressing growing opposition among Ukrainian workers and youth to the imperialist-backed Zelensky regime and the escalating war against Russia.
With the election of an ultra-right former policeman to head Fair Train, a strikebreaking organisation is being built that will be directed against all rail workers.
On Sunday, January 21, the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union, held an event to commemorate the centenary since the death of Lenin at the age of 53.